Story By Emily Dieckman & Photos Courtesy of Tucson CARES Tucson CARES takes on tough feline medical cases and advocates for animal rights. When Alexis Ormbsy found a sick, abandoned cat near the Tucson airport, she took him in, but he wasn’t eating. Every place...

Story & Photos by Emily Dieckman PACC foster mom takes on some of the animal shelter’s neediest feline cases. You wouldn’t guess it from the eight grown cats she calls her own and the 26 kittens she was fostering at one point this fall, but Christina Aronson...

Senior Feline Travels to Forever Okla-home-a Story By Emily Dieckman Some animals have names that fit them. The rational, sometimes cynical tiger from Calvin and Hobbes is named after the like-minded philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Simba, from the beloved Lion King movies,...

Tucson Shelters Extend a Paw to FIV and FeLV-Positive Cats Story & Photo by Devon Confrey A little understanding goes a long way in the cat community. Of all the reasons not to adopt a cat, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and viral feline leukemia (FeLV) can...

Story & Photos By Claire Sheridan The renovations are mostly complete, and the doors are open! At 50 years old, the Hermitage is the oldest cat shelter and sanctuary in the area, if not in all of the southwestern US. Beginning last February, the old building,...

ABC’s of TNR: Tucson Guide to Community Cats Story & Photo by Devon Confrey There are a lot of cats in Tucson. Kind souls and shelters take in as many as they can, still more remain outdoors. Advocates here, particularly those at Tucson Feral TNR Advocates, agree...